Secret Places
“Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.
Reason says, Nonsense.
I have walked and measured the walls here.
There are no places like that.
Love says, There are.
Reason set up a market and begins doing business.
Love has more hidden work.
Hallaj steps away from the pulpit and climbs the stairs of the gallows.
Lovers feel a truth inside themselves that rational people keep denying.
It is reasonable to say, Surrender is just an idea that keeps people from living their lives.
Love responds, No.
This thinking is what is dangerous.
Using language obscures what Shams came to give.
Every day the sun rises out of low word-clouds into burning silence.”
(Poem by Rumi from “Rumi: Bridge to the Soul: Journeys into the Music and Silence of the Heart” translated by Coleman Barks)
This couple of dogs stay together, I often meet them at dawn whenever I come to Gola ghat.
They were looking far towards Malviya Bridge over the holy waters of the Ganges...
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Secret Places
“Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.
Reason says, Nonsense.
I have walked and measured the walls here.
There are no places like that.
Love says, There are.
Reason set up a market and begins doing business.
Love has more hidden work.
Hallaj steps away from the pulpit and climbs the stairs of the gallows.
Lovers feel a truth inside themselves that rational people keep denying.
It is reasonable to say, Surrender is just an idea that keeps people from living their lives.
Love responds, No.
This thinking is what is dangerous.
Using language obscures what Shams came to give.
Every day the sun rises out of low word-clouds into burning silence.”
(Poem by Rumi from “Rumi: Bridge to the Soul: Journeys into the Music and Silence of the Heart” translated by Coleman Barks)
This couple of dogs stay together, I often meet them at dawn whenever I come to Gola ghat.
They were looking far towards Malviya Bridge over the holy waters of the Ganges...
Join the photographer at www.facebook.com/laurent.goldstein.photography
© All photographs are copyrighted and all rights reserved.
Please do not use any photographs without permission (even for private use).
The use of any work without consent of the artist is PROHIBITED and will lead automatically to consequences.